On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Nux! nux@li.nux.ro wrote:
On 28.10.2013 17:52, Fred Smith wrote:
I'm investigating how to setup KVM so I can run VMs without having to use VirtualBox or VMware, or etc.
All the HOWTOs I see tell you to disable NM.
There is no reason to disable NM entirely.
But you can disable NM per interface with: NM_CONTROLLED="no"
I use NM to manage VPN clients that I use for remote access to my office, among other places.
How would I manage those VPN clients if I didn't use NM? I haven't found any commands that appear to be suited to that purpose.
thanks!
Hi,
KVM/libvirt works just fine with NM enabled here. Never had a problem.
I've seen it is common practice to disable NM on bridge and other interfaces at times.
I expect this excerpt from [0] is why I've seen NM disabled "per interface" in various write-ups. And in my case I never needed or wanted NM fiddling with most interfaces on my headless servers. ;)
- The NM_CONTROLLED=no should be added to the Ethernet interface to prevent *NetworkManager* from altering the file. It can also be added to the bridge configuration file in case future versions of *NetworkManager* support bridge configuration.
[0] https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/...
Just "yum install qemu-kvm libvirt virt-manager", start libvirtd and fire-up virt-manager, you're set!
HTH Lucian
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